Tuesday, 8 August 2017

Today in rock history 8th August

1952 – Journeyman drummer Anton Fig (Frehley’s Comet, Bob Dylan, Cyndi Lauper) is born in Cape Town, South Africa.
1959 – Poison drummer Rikki Rocket is born in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
1961 – The Edge, U2 guitarist with the funny name, is born in East London as mere Dave Evans.
1963 – Oregon band the Kingsmen release “Louie Louie.” Many radio stations ban the song when they decide the indecipherable lyrics must be obscene.
1964 – Bob Dylan releases his album Another Side of Bob Dylan.
1970 – Janis Joplin buys a headstone for the grave of blues singer Bessie Smith, one of her idols.
1976 – Epic Records releases Boston’s self-titled first album. The album becomes the fastest-selling debut ever.
1980 – The Plasmatics suffer a blow in London when local authorities tell them they can’t blow up a car onstage at the Hammersmith Odeon.
1981 – MTV makes its first live concert stereo broadcast. The lucky band is REO Speedwagon.
1982 – Mickey Thompson, singer with Starship, marries Sara Kendrick in San Francisco.
1985 – Keith Richards guests on Phantom, Rocker & Slick’s “My Mistake.” He accepts a leopard-skin coat as payment.
1986 – David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is released from prison after serving time for drug and weapons charges.
1992 – Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses walks off stage after 55 minutes at a concert at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, complaining of a sore throat. Many of the 53,000 fans who came see the group and Metallica riot.
1998 – The Rolling Stones perform their first concert in Russia, playing through a driving rain before an appreciative crowd estimated at 70,000.
1999 - The Guess Who reunited with Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings for the first time in 16 years to appear at the closing of the Pan American Games in Winnipeg as a personal request from the Premier of Manitoba.
2006 - Dennis DeYoung formerly of Styx & Roger Hodgson formerly of Supertramp served as mentors on Canadian Idol where they also performed.